Is that because it can't be said as a word?

It is.

Optimistic as ever

If there was a boycott you'd hear about it on the HoL or BBS first. But there's been nothing. People are more likely to miss games due having other commitments.

I can say it, it's just the p is silent as in Bath.

Pterodactyls have a silent P too.
From that high up, you'd need big ears to hear it.

I'd be surprised if there is anyone participating in an organised boycott but I could understand a person becoming fed up with this club and deciding there are better ways to spend a Saturday afternoon/Sunday lunchtime/Tuesday evening. We seem always to find a way to cock things up.
During the home defeat to Swansea I found my attention to the game waning. I looked round the stadium in all its faded glory and wondered what have we to show for four years in the richest league in the world?
Apparently the training facilities aren't great, the old stadium looks, well old whilst on the pitch we had a bunch of players struggling to look like they belonged.
We have spent four years developing a method and building a squad to cope with this division in a particular way only to very suddenly change dramatically our desired style of play using players fit for the established style and not the desired one.
Every season we have avoided relegation I've looked forward to the next in the hope we would progress and yet every season something or a series of somethings (often self inflicted) dashes that hope sooner or later.
Its the hope that can kill ya

I'm a sleeping dog, but you can't tell
When I'm on the prowl you'd better run like hell